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Kohl's Corp (KSS): Today's Featured Services Laggard

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Kohl's (
KSS) pushed the Services sector lower today making it today's featured Services laggard. The sector as a whole closed the day down 0.1%. By the end of trading, Kohl's fell 53 cents (-1%) to $52.29 on average volume. Throughout the day, 2.6 million shares of Kohl's exchanged hands as compared to its average daily volume of 3.1 million shares. The stock ranged in price between $51.92-$52.58 after having opened the day at $52.48 as compared to the previous trading day's close of $52.82. Other companies within the Services sector that declined today were:
Fortune Industries (
FFI), down 18.8%,
Daegis (
DAEG), down 16.2%,
Oxygen Biotherapeutics (
OXBT), down 12.7%, and
Dial Global (
DIAL), down 11.8%.

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Kohl's Corporation operates department stores in the United States. Its stores offer private, exclusive, and national branded apparel, footwear, and accessories for women, men, and children; soft home products, such as sheets and pillows; and housewares targeted to middle-income customers. Kohl's has a market cap of $12.45 billion and is part of the
retail industry. The company has a P/E ratio of 12.7, equal to the average retail industry P/E ratio and below the S&P 500 P/E ratio of 17.7. Shares are up 7.5% year to date as of the close of trading on Friday. Currently there are 10 analysts that rate Kohl's a buy, no analysts rate it a sell, and seven rate it a hold.

TheStreet Ratings rates Kohl's as a
buy. The company's strengths can be seen in multiple areas, such as its increase in stock price during the past year, largely solid financial position with reasonable debt levels by most measures, notable return on equity and expanding profit margins. We feel these strengths outweigh the fact that the company has had sub par growth in net income.